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Informational text resources in English (UK)
Reading Comprehension Strategies
Reading Comprehension Strategies This pack has everything you need to teach, practice, and use reading comprehension strategies {all year long} in your classroom!I’m so excited to share this reading comprehension strategy resource with you! I created it after I realized my class needed a more engaging way to practice reading comprehension strategies. Since my class loves animals (what kid doesn’t?), I themed this resource - animal style. YOUR STUDENTS WILL LEARN THE FOLLOWING SEVEN COMPREHENSI
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K - 3rd
Growth Mindset Inspirational Classroom Posters
Growth Mindset Posters and decorThis fun resource contains a whopping 101 inspirational and motivational growth mindset quotes to encourage, inspire and motivate: perfect for instantly brightening any classroom, corridor, office or even home!There are a vast variety of quotes in this pack enabling you to conveniently change up your bulletin boards regularly or cover a large footprint of your school. These quotes can also easily be used on a daily basis as a "quote of the day" up on the interacti
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Also included in: Stress Management Activities for Teens BUNDLE
What Happened on September 11? - Reading Comprehension Worksheet / Text
This Reading Comprehension worksheet is suitable for beginner to proficient ESL learners. The text describes the events that unfolded on September 11, 2001.After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including comprehension questions, True or False exercises, multiple choice exercise , a fill-in-the-gaps exercise and a fun crossword. This worksheet can also be used for IGCSE, TOEFL vocabulary building purposes. The handout can be completed in
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Also included in: Modern History Bundle - Reading Comprehension Worksheets
Wolf Hollow Novel Study
This resource is designed to be used during Reading Workshop and is to be used with Wolf Hollow by Lauren Wolk.ABOUT THE NOVEL: Growing up in the shadows cast by two world wars, Annabelle has lived a mostly quiet, steady life in her small Pennsylvania town. Until the day new student Betty Glengarry walks into her class. Betty quickly reveals herself to be cruel and manipulative, and while her bullying seems isolated at first, things quickly escalate, and reclusive World War I veteran Toby becom
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4th - 7th
Also included in: Lauren Wolk BUNDLE
WWI and the Rise of Totalitarianism (Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin) - Reading Text
This Reading Comprehension worksheet gives an account of the post WWI conditions that contributed to the rise of different totalitarian regimes around the world, including Benito Mussolini in Italy, Adolph Hitler in Germany and Joseph Stalin in Russia. The text is suitable for advanced intermediate to proficient ESL learners and native English speakers.After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including comprehension questions, a definitions
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8th - 12th, Adult Education
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Also included in: WWI & WWII BUNDLE - Reading Comprehension Worksheets
The history of Halloween - Reading Comprehension Worksheet / Vocabulary
This worksheet will introduce students to the history of Halloween. It presents the ancient origins of Halloween and provides a historical background for one of the most popular holidays nowadays. The comprehension exercises that follow will bolster the student's newly acquired knowledge. The vocabulary exercises will enhance vocabulary acquisition through fun practice.
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Also included in: Halloween Worksheet bundle
A Brief History of Human Evolution - Reading Comprehension Text
This Reading Comprehension worksheet is suitable for higher elementary to proficient ESL learners or native English speakers. The text describes the evolution of Human Evolution from Australopithecus afarensis to Homo Sapiens.After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including: comprehension questions, True or False exercises, a definitions match, a multiple choice exercise, and a fun crossword . The text can also be used for IGCSE or TOEFL
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Also included in: Ancient History Bundle - Reading Comprehension Worksheets
The Rise and Fall of The Roman Empire - Informational Text Reading & Comprehensi
This Reading Comprehension worksheet is suitable for higher elementary to proficient ESL learners or native English speakers. The text explores the tumultuous history of the ancient Roman Empire from the foundation of Rome to the fall of Romulus Augustus, the last Roman Emperor.After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including a true or false exercise, comprehension questions, a definitions match and a fun crossword. The text can be used f
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Not Grade Specific
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Also included in: Ancient History Bundle - Reading Comprehension Worksheets
A Brief History of the British Empire, Colonisation & Slave Trade - Reading
This Reading Comprehension worksheet is suitable for higher elementary to proficient ESL learners or native English speakers. The text describes the history of the British Empire, from the first expeditions to the scramble for Africa and the later de-colonisation process after the end of WWII.After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including: comprehension questions, True or False exercises, a definitions match, a fill-in-the-gaps exercise
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Not Grade Specific
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Also included in: Modern History Bundle - Reading Comprehension Worksheets
Boy Overboard Novel Study: Research Tasks
Explore topics related to Boy Overboard by Morris Gleitzman with this research and investigation resource. With scaffolded task sheets, country studies, task cards and activities to support research learning. The tasks cover a range of places, ideas and topics covered in the novel.This resource is also available as part of the Boy Overboard Novel Study Bundle To use this resource you will need:At least one copy of Boy Overboard by Morris Gleitzman (first published 2002)This resource includes✫ S
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5th - 7th
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Also included in: Boy Overboard Novel Study Bundle
The 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic - Reading Comprehension Informational Text
This Reading Comprehension worksheet is suitable for higher elementary to proficient ESL learners or native English speakers. The text explores the spread of the Spanish Flu / Influenza pandemic of 1918 and why it was the deadliest and strangely most forgotten medical calamity in history.After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including true or False exercises, a fun crossword and multiple choice exercises . The text can be used for vocabu
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8th - 12th, Adult Education
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Also included in: Modern History Bundle - Reading Comprehension Worksheets
Community Helpers (People Who Help Us) Display and Fact Files
Resource Title
People Who Help Us Display and Fact Files
Age/Year Group
Early Years and Key Stage 1
Total Pages in download
❤ 35
File Type
PDF
Resource Content
❂ Over 20 pictures ideal for display and/or talking and listening discussions for the topic 'People Who Help Us/Community Helpers'.
❂ Each community helper comes with a fact file that includes a job description.
Check the preview!
Reviews and feedback are appreciated, I value all but as we tell our students, try to be constructive!
Grades:
PreK - 2nd
Five Little Indians Novel Study
This resource is designed to be used during Reading Workshop with Five Little Indians by Michelle Good.About the Novel: Taken from their families when they are very small and sent to a remote, church-run residential school, Kenny, Lucy, Clara, Howie and Maisie are barely out of childhood when they are finally released after years of detention.Alone and without any skills, support or families, the teens find their way to the seedy and foreign world of Downtown Eastside Vancouver, where they cling
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7th - 10th
Turtles All The Way Down Novel Study
This resource is designed to be used during Reading Workshop and is to be used with Turtles All the Way Down by John Green.ABOUT THE NOVEL: It’s quite rare to find someone who sees the same world you see.Sixteen-year-old Aza never intended to pursue the mystery of fugitive billionaire Russell Pickett, but there’s a hundred-thousand-dollar reward at stake and her Best and Most Fearless Friend, Daisy, is eager to investigate. So together, they navigate the short distance and broad divides that se
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6th - 8th
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Environment BUNDLE - Reading Comprehension Worksheets
This bundle includes different Reading Comprehension Worksheets suitable for higher intermediate advanced ESL learners. The texts explore a number of environmental issues including air and water pollution, genetic engineering, climate change and nuclear radiation.After carefully reading each informational text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including: questions, True or False, gap filling exercises, crosswords, word search exercises, definitions matching exercise
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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What does smoking do to your lungs? - Reading Comprehension / Informational Text
This Reading Comprehension worksheet is suitable for higher elementary to proficient ESL learners or native English speakers. The text describes the damage that chronic first and second-hand smoking can cause to the lungs, what is COPD (Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) and how chronic smoking can cause to oxygen deprivation, blood clogging and increase the risk of heart attack, lung infections, pneumonia and lung cancer among others,After carefully reading the text, students are required t
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8th - 12th, Adult Education
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Also included in: Medicine, Health & Medical Conditions and Advancements - Reading Texts
Pax Novel Study
This newly updated resource is designed to be used during Reading Workshop and is to be used with Pax by Sara Pennypacker. ABOUT THE NOVEL: From bestselling and award-winning author Sara Pennypacker comes a beautifully wrought, utterly compelling novel about the powerful relationship between a boy and his fox. Pax is destined to become a classic, beloved for generations to come.Pax and Peter have been inseparable ever since Peter rescued him as a kit. But one day, the unimaginable happens: Pete
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4th - 7th
A Brief History of Medicine - Reading Comprehension Text
This Reading Comprehension worksheet is suitable for higher elementary to proficient ESL learners or native English speakers. The text describes the evolution of medicine from the first herbal remedies to the latest medical advances of the 21st century.After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including: a title match, comprehension questions, True or False exercises, a definitions match, a multiple choice exercise and a fun crossword . The
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8th - 12th, Adult Education
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Also included in: A Brief History of... - Reading Comprehension Worksheets
Beowulf Unit Plan (based on the 2013 Holt McDougal text)
This unit is over the story of "Beowulf", using the 2013 Holt McDougal textbook. This unit also includes:- 3 versions of a final test over the story, with answer keys and a review guide- A common core lesson about heroes that relates several articles and song lyrics to the story of "Beowulf"- A graphic organizer on which students can summarize each section of the story- A vocabulary graphic organizer- A "Who's Who" list of major characters in the story- Several project ideas- An activity in whic
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11th - 12th
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Space Exploration BUNDLE - Reading Comprehension Texts #GoogleExpeditions
This Reading Comprehension worksheets can be assigned independently or they may be used to compliment #GoogleExpeditions related virtual trips.These handouts are suitable for upper intermediate to proficient ESL learners or native English speakers.After carefully reading each text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including: questions, True or False exercises, crosswords, gap filling exercises, word searches, definitions match and speaking prompts . The vocabulary u
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Not Grade Specific
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Compare & Contrast two Texts based on "Renewable Energy" High School English
Useful PDF for those desiring to learn/teach the differences in two perspectives on the same topic! Perfect for those studying English in secondary schools, desiring to understand how authors can write with different perspectives, engaging their audiences’ in dissimilar ways. This document will be comparing the following texts as unseen pieces of literature for students to analyse and compare:Text 1: Perspective A - Optimistic View Title: "The Future of Renewable Energy: A World Powered by Clean
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6th - 9th
Life & work of William Shakespeare - Reading Comprehension Vocabulary Worksheet
Teachers can use this 3-page informative worksheet to present to the classroom the life and work of William Shakespeare, one of the most important writers of all times. Students will gain some general knowledge about the theater culture during the sixteenth century and how William Shakespeare developed into one of the most significant writers of all time. The worksheet is suitable for intermediate and upper intermediate level. It can also be taught in ESL/EFL classrooms. The worksheet includes a
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Super Bowl PowerPoint bundle - Super Bowl Activity
All About the Super Bowl PowerPointHow does this resource engage my class?It’s hard to miss what’s going on when Super Bowl Sunday rolls around and the NFL championship game takes place. So of course your learners (especially those sports fans!) could stand to learn a little more about the history of this huge event, don’t you think?This imaginatively designed and super informative PowerPoint is a perfect accompaniment to the Super Bowl season. Engage your learners with information all about the
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PreK - 4th
What Caused the Great Depression? - Reading Comprehension Worksheet / Text
This Reading Comprehension worksheet is suitable for higher elementary to proficient ESL learners or native English speakers. The text describes the events that led to the Great Depression in the U.S., it's effects on society and its end at the onset of WWII. After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including true or False exercises, a fun crossword,a definitions match and several comprehension questions. The text can be used for vocabulary
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Not Grade Specific
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Also included in: Modern History Bundle - Reading Comprehension Worksheets
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